As Lord Krishna said, if we work … we are doing true yoga. He also inspired the warrior in Arjuna to keep doing the work … and not contemplate a consequence.

‘Karmanyavadhikaraste Ma faleshu Kadachana ….’ And so it goes.

How in India we believe in these sayings of the Lord but all of that is on paper … seldom in practice. We are the ones who are lazy workers, reluctant to take up anything new to work on … with enough initiative. All of this because Lord asked us to …

But then is all work a form of worship to the Lord?

I prefer to spend a few minutes before I conclude. In my imagination, there is a work that is positive, radiates positive energy and also creates some amount of productivity among my society. While there may be others … like the guy who sells movie tickets in the black market or the thief who steals… whose work and targets, definitely not at all slackened than mine … is an example of ‘bad’ work.

Do such bad workmen keep doing their work and not care about the consequences?

Well, Lord did not elaborate or may be, He assumed that all work is not something this phrase meant. There are certainly those works that gave Him pleasure and help mankind to grow. I do not intend to debate … for my knowledge on the type of work Lord envisaged is very feeble.

Since Lord said, do we consider this as the hard core rule of life?

I guess, his idea was to preach the doctrine of work to Arjun and subsequently to the whole societal mass of India to keep working … intention being to keep the cycle of activity moving … but that was the need of the hour. May be, his focus area was to make everybody keep the wheels of work move … and less on what should be differentiated as a good work or a bad work.

Or may be He was purely trying to be diplomatic and encouraging Arjuna to help complete the great war of Mahabharata. All of these are mere guesswork. I may be off the mark by a few million yards.

One way to appreciate this is to keep the good work going … while the other way to interpret this will be to do all those work that are close to expressing gratitude to God … and His creations.

But my way of interpretation, why was He not specific? A question that may be coming from the devil’s workshop!

Physicists from the world over … they are the ones who ask about the vector displacement for a determined force as a measure of work. There are so many more classifications.

My work is cut out. After this prolonged sabbatical, I intend to start my journey again probing my idle brains. Some of you may have written me off … while some others may have thought I called it quits.

But I am back … I need to stay on … at least to be one of the few surviving devil’s advocate.